Hello! Welcome to Tendrils. After a politically stormy night, the UK skies have emerged neither blue nor red, but more of an attractive purple colour, such as that appearing on my Sárpo spuds right now! And the key question on everyone’s lips is: if Jeremy...

The only votes that matter are the ones cast on Thursday, but in the meantime Suttons have been having a bit of fun asking people to ‘vote’ by choosing one of their perennial collections in the colours of political parties. It seems that, at the moment,...

Hello, and welcome to Tendrils. There was worrying news, last week, that the Svalbard seed bank had been flooded due to unexpected melting of the permafrost – a direct result of climate change. What actually happened was more of a damp squib. Record rainfall...

Hello! Welcome to Tendrils. Yesterday I learned that the winged fruit of Acer species are called samaras. These lovely pink ones adorn a tree close to my house. I’m not sure of the species; it’s an odd area that used to be housing and now is semi-wild, but...

Hello! Welcome to Tendrils 🙂 It has been a week of exciting weather here in the UK, with cold nights (including frosts in some places) and April showers that came down in solid format. The picture above was of hail damage to squash leaves in May 2015; so far this year...

Hello, and welcome to Tendrils! My assertion, earlier in the week, that forget-me-nots have edible flowers has caused some surprised reactions! You don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) take my word for it. I have added two sources to a comment on the original...